With the development of the times and social progress, especially as a unified examination subject, English has been paid more and more attention. English classes are generally offered in township primary schools, but the environment for learning English in urban and rural areas is quite different, and the situation of English teaching in rural primary schools is worrying. Many schools have insufficient English teachers and inadequate English class arrangements. In order to complete the teaching task, the teacher only teaches words and practices sentence patterns in class. Students lack interaction in class, and there are few opportunities for communication. Students don't know what they are reading after class. There are also many schools that attach great importance to English teaching. They arrange three English classes every week and have full-time English teachers. However, due to the influence of the general environment, English is still in a "minor subject" position, and there is also a lack of effective methods and means to test the effectiveness of classroom teaching. Teachers' general English classroom teaching is only for students to follow. "Giving people fish" is the wisdom and essence of classroom teaching. Therefore, I think it is necessary to study the effectiveness of English teaching in primary schools, which is the key and fundamental requirement for deepening curriculum reform at present.
Second, the definition of effective teaching
Effective teaching is a very representative teaching concept in the west in the first half of the 20th century. Its core idea is the benefit of teaching, that is, what kind of teaching is effective? Is it efficient, inefficient or ineffective? The so-called "effectiveness" mainly refers to the concrete progress or development made by students after a period of teaching by teachers. In other words, the progress or development of students is the only indicator of teaching effect. Whether teaching is effective does not depend on whether the teacher has finished teaching the content, but on whether the students have learned anything or whether the students have learned well. If students don't want to learn or can't learn anything, no matter how much the teacher teaches, it is useless. Any teaching activity that can effectively promote students' development and achieve the expected teaching effect can be called effective teaching. At present, many primary school English teachers always complain about too much teaching content and too few class hours, hoping to improve students' grades by increasing class hours and using extracurricular time. This idea is not desirable. Classroom is the main place for students to learn English, and only improving the efficiency of English classroom teaching in primary schools is the key to solve the problem.
Third, how to improve the effectiveness of English classroom teaching in primary schools
In the actual teaching process, English teaching under the guidance of the new curriculum teaching concept is still difficult to implement. Its tight class hours and large capacity have brought great resistance to our English teaching, prompting us to think more about how to improve the quality of 40 minutes in class. So, how to improve the effectiveness of English teaching in primary schools? Einstein said, "Interest is the best teacher." In order to stimulate students' interest in learning, a successful English teacher will create a harmonious relationship between teachers and students and a relaxed and happy learning environment, and adopt flexible teaching methods to enable students to learn actively and learn by doing, thus improving efficiency. Consciously cultivate students' lasting interest in English in teaching, encourage students to keep in a good learning state, and make them happy to learn English, be good at learning, know how to learn, and forget themselves in learning. It is also necessary to stimulate students' enthusiasm for practice through various means, strengthen students' interest in English and complete the tasks required by the new curriculum standard.
(A harmonious relationship between teachers and students, and create a good learning atmosphere.
As English teachers in the 2 1 century, we should know how to respect and love our students and establish a new, equal and cooperative teacher-student relationship with them. Education is a career full of emotion and love. Teachers should communicate more emotionally than students, be intimate friends of students, make students feel that teachers are the most trustworthy people, and talk about everything with teachers to achieve the best state of teacher-student relationship. This requires teachers to go deep into students, understand the changes of students' interests, hobbies and emotions, always care for students, love them, respect them, and help them in a targeted way. In the eyes of students, teachers are not only respectable teachers, but also close friends, who use love to stimulate students' interest in learning English.
(B) create an English teaching environment and mobilize a variety of senses to participate in activities.
A good beginning is half the battle. In classroom teaching, teachers should first pay special attention to using the ten minutes before class to create a good classroom atmosphere (warm-up). For example, sing some English songs and play interesting knowledge review games such as "Let me guess". Or "Come with me." It can enliven the classroom atmosphere, increase the interest of English class and stimulate students' curiosity.
Secondly, to create a relaxed and happy learning environment, teachers should devote themselves to classroom teaching with full enthusiasm and look free and easy; Full of energy; The expression should be relaxed and happy; Kind eyes; Kindness; Generous and elegant behavior; Concise speech; The language should be pure, authentic and fluent; Calligraphy should be standardized and beautiful; The layout should be reasonable and eye-catching.
Third, mobilize students' multiple senses to participate in learning. Students can reproduce 70% of the original content only through visual memory, while 86.5% of the original content can be reproduced through visual combination. Therefore, students should be exposed to the English environment as much as possible, mobilize various senses to participate in activities, and let students receive information from multiple angles. The use of multiple senses is conducive to students' understanding of knowledge and deepening of memory. It can stimulate learning interest and make students develop in an all-round way. In teaching, students can speak with their mouths, see with their eyes, listen with their ears, draw with their hands and brains, and at the same time, they can strengthen their understanding of the language and culture they have learned.
(3) Constantly update teaching methods to gain interest.
Teaching is not only a skill, but also an art. Teachers must try their best to make students feel interesting and novel in teaching, which requires teachers to adapt to the development of the times, keep pace with the times, make full use of modern educational technology, and stimulate students' imagination through models, pictures, slides, videos, projections and multimedia courseware. Turn abstract into concrete, make teaching activities vivid, and make students learn easily and practice solidly. Teachers should be good at using various methods in teaching. Such as "performance method", "competition method" and "game method".
1. Be a "little teacher" and "imitation show"
For example, in the "talk about it" module, students can be encouraged to imitate boldly and say sentences with expressions. Students can also be encouraged to be "little teachers" on the platform and read sentences. Let them imitate the teacher's expressions and actions in class and encourage them to use classroom language.
2. Bring body language into the classroom
When teaching words or sentences, students can be led to do actions, even exaggerated actions or read aloud in exaggerated tones, which students especially like. After learning the words, the teacher will perform and the students will say the words.
3. Performance method
For example, my usual performance method is to let students use the first five minutes of each class to perform and consolidate the sentences they have learned. The specific method is: the study group will act out the dialogue, say whatever you can, and it doesn't matter if you are wrong. In this way, students will not have the pressure of criticism if they say something wrong.
In addition, I often ask students to "sing English songs", "say tongue twisters" and "play games". Because of the variety of teaching methods, classroom teaching is full of vitality, students learn lively, give full play to students' subjectivity and develop their personality.
4. Draw and say.
The most prominent feature of the new textbook is illustrated with pictures and texts, which are reflected everywhere, whether for students or for activities. Painting is an activity with eyes, hands and brains, which is intuitive, vivid and vivid. On the one hand, it can arouse students' interest; On the other hand, it can help students remember and improve learning efficiency.
It is also very important for students to learn your methods. The new learning method is not only conducive to the understanding and mastery of knowledge, but also conducive to the formation of a good class group, and can cultivate students' spirit of unity and cooperation. In the process of cooperative learning, students' thinking and psychological activity ability can be in a highly positive state for a long time. At the same time, students help each other, learn actively and flexibly, and make progress together in poverty alleviation. To a great extent, students with poor foundations will have more and bolder practical opportunities. After this practice for a period of time, students' English scores have been greatly improved.
(D) Organize students to carry out extensive language practice activities.
Suhomlinski said: "The source of interest lies in application." In order to enhance students' interest in learning English and give them more opportunities to communicate in English, teachers can design and organize various extracurricular activities with moderate difficulty, regularly edit English learning gardens or hold English wall newspapers, solve difficult problems, analyze common mistakes, discriminate word usage, and hold lectures on British and American landscape knowledge. You can also publish some game methods, English poems, riddles, allusions, anecdotes, student diaries and so on. You can also set up English extracurricular groups, sing English songs, perform English conversations or short plays and other group activities; Organize English competitions in combination with reality, such as English writing competition, word solitaire competition, recitation competition, etc. Let the students help each other and infect each other in these activities, and then improve their level together. Through these activities, students can apply what they have learned, know themselves, gain different degrees of sense of accomplishment, enhance their self-confidence, increase their interest and fun in learning English, change "I want to learn" into "I want to learn", and then keep their interest in learning English for a long time.
In short, English learning, interest first. The level of students' language ability is greatly influenced by their interest in English learning. It's hard to imagine how to cultivate communicative competence without interest. As a teacher, on the one hand, we should teach students language knowledge and make them master skills, on the other hand, we should pay attention to cultivating and maintaining students' interest in this subject, get twice the result with half the effort, and truly implement the requirements put forward by the new curriculum standard.